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Forums - Nintendo - Mario Kart 8's Final Roster Will Only Have 30 Characters!? <(o_O<)

Lonely_Dolphin on 15 April 2014
tbone51 said:

30 is a good number, its up from MKWii 24.

If your mad, i blame koopalings, wasted 7 character slots.

Also i read somewhere diddy kong is confirmed which means 2 characters are left (my guess Mii and Bowser Jr)

 

Edit: found it, supposedly froma gaming magazine. This roster looks ok, still kinda mad about koopalings, but im happy for those who wanted them in. (MK7 had the worse character roster in the series)

The Diddy Kong thing was a mistake, and the problem is despite a whopping 30 characters, the Koopalings, the Babys, n Metal Mario take up space that should go towards more iconic and unique characters. Of course, if the true roster is revealed to be 36 or so, then this'll be a non-issue, but for right now we only know there will be atleast 30 characters.



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hsrob on 15 April 2014

I generally settle on one pretty quickly so that doesn't particularly bother me. I get the point about the seven Koopalings but what's a Karter to do?

Back in my day.......



Cleary397 on 15 April 2014
tbone51 said:

30 is a good number, its up from MKWii 24.

If your mad, i blame koopalings, wasted 7 character slots.

Also i read somewhere diddy kong is confirmed which means 2 characters are left (my guess Mii and Bowser Jr)

 

Edit: found it, supposedly froma gaming magazine. This roster looks ok, still kinda mad about koopalings, but im happy for those who wanted them in. (MK7 had the worse character roster in the series)

The printing of Diddy kong was confirmed to be a complete error, and he is not in the game.



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Lonely_Dolphin on 15 April 2014
hsrob said:

I generally settle on one pretty quickly so that doesn't particularly bother me. I get the point about the seven Koopalings but what's a Karter to do?

Back in my day.......


You mean back in most of our days, as 64 n Super Circuit also only had 8 playable characters! It wasn't until Double Dash that they finally expanded the roster, and since then they've always had atleast 12 characters to choose from.



Jumpin on 15 April 2014

What do you mean only 30 characters? That's fairly high. Who else do you expect to be in the game?



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Lonely_Dolphin on 15 April 2014
Jumpin said:
What do you mean only 30 characters? That's fairly high. Who else do you expect to be in the game?


The OP, read it!



Jumpin on 15 April 2014
Einsam_Delphin said:
Jumpin said:
What do you mean only 30 characters? That's fairly high. Who else do you expect to be in the game?


The OP, read it!

It mentions Birdo and Dry Bones who might be in the question mark spots (But let's face it, it putting in characters like that you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel, just because the likes of Wiggler was in Mario Kart 7 doesn't mean he should be back in 8). Diddy Kong definitely won't be in it, he is not even from the Mario franchise, he's from DKC. The Mii won't be on the main roster either, if the Mii is there it will likely be from a different menu since the Wii U can store multiple Miis whereas the 3DS only locks in one.

So I am asking again, who else do you expect to be in the game? Also, why do you think 30 is a small number when it is much higher than the prior 2 games?



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prayformojo on 15 April 2014

Only?!? Clearly you aren't old enough to have played the original Mario Kart. haha



Mowco on 15 April 2014

I only ever play mario..... except in double dash.



Lonely_Dolphin on 15 April 2014
Jumpin said:
Einsam_Delphin said:
Jumpin said:
What do you mean only 30 characters? That's fairly high. Who else do you expect to be in the game?


The OP, read it!

It mentions Birdo and Dry Bones who might be in the question mark spots (But let's face it, it putting in characters like that you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel, just because the likes of Wiggler was in Mario Kart 7 doesn't mean he should be back in 8). Diddy Kong definitely won't be in it, he is not even from the Mario franchise, he's from DKC. The Mii won't be on the main roster either, if the Mii is there it will likely be from a different menu since the Wii U can store multiple Miis whereas the 3DS only locks in one.

So I am asking again, who else do you expect to be in the game? Also, why do you think 30 is a small number when it is much higher than the prior 2 games?

Birdo and Diddy Kong have been in every home console Mario Kart since Double Dash, and yeah I forgot that the Mii is always on a seperate line not with the main roster. And I'll tell you again, read the OP! Not sure how you missed Dry Bones, Bowser Jr., and how there should be other characters new to Mario Kart asside from the Koopalings. I never said 30 was a small number. My problem is that we're probably not gonna get anymore newcomers and some longtime favorites are going to be dropped, all in favor of more turtles. Like really, with a third of the roster being Koopas now, they may aswell call it Koopa Kart 8! xD